2009 Awards Recipients

MTNA Achievement Award

• Marvin Blickenstaff, NCTM
  Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Teacher of the Year

• Marie Burnette, NCTM
  High Point, North Carolina

Distinguished Service Award

• Wayne Gibson, NCTM
  Atlanta, Georgia

Frances Clark Pedagogy Award 

• Two-and Three-part Inventions (Sinfonia) and
  Well-tempered Clavier by Bach
  by Willard Palmer

Distinguished Composer of the Year

• William Price
  Birmingham, Alabama
  Hardboiled
  Commissioned by the Alabama MTA

Distinguished Composer Honorable Mention

• Christopher Biggs
  Kansas City, Missouri
  10-33
  Commissioned by Missouri MTA

Distinguished Composer Honorable Mention

• Jonathan McNair
  Chattanooga, Tennessee
  Digressions
  Commissioned by Tennessee MTA

State Affiliate of the Year

• Washington State MTA
  Mary Kaye Owen, NCTM, president

Local Association of the Year

• Lafayette Area MTA (Louisiana)
  Sarah Roy, president

Benjamin Whitten Collegiate Chapter of the Year

• University of Oklahoma Collegiate Chapter (Oklahoma)
  Rachel Schmoyer, president

Benjamin Whitten Collegiate Chapter Advisor of the Year

• Barbara Fast, NCTM (University of Oklahoma Collegiate Chapter)
• Jane Magrath, NCTM (University of Oklahoma Collegiate Chapter)

American Music Teacher Article of the Year

• Judith Lang Zaimont
  Maricopa, Arizona
  "Embracing New Music"
  August/September 2008 AMT

StAR/Studio Teacher Fellowship Award

• Ivy Jo Andreasen
  Brigham City, Utah

MTNA-Piano Technicians Guild Scholarship

• Recreational Music Making Workshop
  Judith Torigoe, NCTM
  Sedona, Arizona

MTNA-Piano Technicians Guild Scholarship

• Teacher Continuing Education and/or Performance Study
  Marguerite Munoz, NCTM
  Atlanta, Georgia